For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. – Jerry Garcia
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. – Jerry Garcia
Were not uncomfortable with it, and weve already been through enough of the music business where Im not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – were already past saving, you know what I mean? Its too late for us. – Jerry Garcia
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. – Jerry Garcia
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion